THE EROTICS OF LOOKING by Angela Vanhaelen (Editor), Bronwen Wilson (Editor) ( 9781118465257 )

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THE EROTICS OF LOOKING
EARLY MODERN NETHERLANDISH ART

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Angela Vanhaelen (Editor), Bronwen Wilson (Editor)

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY & SONS INC

Pub. date:

28 June, 2013

Series:

Art History Special Issues

Pages:

218

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The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder s involvement. * Explores how descriptive pictures during the early modern Dutch art period operated as social things and were designed to pleasurably engage the eye and prompt discussion and debate * Shows how these works potentially raised ethical and political questions about the interconnectedness of engaging with pictures and the material world * Represents a major contribution to the field of early modern Netherlandish art and to general debates about the status and functions of descriptive art * Features essays addressing a variety of aspects of the field, from the historiography of Dutch art to closely attentive readings of particular works * Crafts an original theoretical framework by applying recent insights about the making of early modern publics and the study of material things to the analysis of Netherlandish art

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